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Wozzeck (German pronunciation:) is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg. Composed between 1914 and 1922, it premiered in 1925. It is based on the drama Woyzeck, which German playwright Georg Büchner left incomplete at his death. Berg attended the first production in Vienna of Büchner's play on 5 May 1914, and knew at once that ...
Büchner composes his dramatic fragment Woyzeck. When he dies of typhoid fever at age 23 on February 19, 1837, Woyzeck is left incomplete. The work can be understood as either grittily realistic or morbidly expressionistic, but by either measure, it is an example of astonishing modernism for the age. 1879
28 lip 2023 · A soldier, Wozzeck, is humiliated by his Captain, who criticises him for leading an immoral life. Wozzeck and Marie have a son, but they are not married. Wozzeck's dark and anxious character is accentuated by a fear of dusk, when he often has visions of death and destruction.
Synopsis. An indispensable piece of modern music and one of the most emblematic of the 20th century, Wozzeck is a dazzling piece. Adapting Georg Büchner’s play, Alban Berg managed to capture the social and psychological violence roiling the soldier Franz Wozzeck, with a force and precision rarely attained in opera.
With an introduction to Wozzeck’s story, themes, and style and activities designed to bring the opera’s music and drama into the classroom, the materials on the following pages will help students engage with Berg’s opera in an accessible yet thought-provoking way.
Wozzeck becomes a murderer, stabbing Marie to death. Georg Büchner’s drama fragment, on which Alban Berg based his first opera, is an unflinching case study of social injustice and human suffering.
THE OPERA’S PLOT AND CREATION: The source, the story, who’s who in Wozzeck, and a timeline with key dates for Berg’s work. CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES: Two activities designed to align with and support various Common Core Standard strands used in ELA, History / Social Studies, and Music curricula.
